A University of Colorado student who started wearing hijab after converting to Islam is fighting the Boulder County Jail's insistence that she remove her headscarf for a booking photo, saying that to do so would violate her religious beliefs.

Maria Hardman, 19, of Boulder, reported to the jail Wednesday to do the paperwork for a two-day work crew sentence that was supposed to be served this weekend. But when a jail detention officer told her to remove her headscarf for her mug shot, she balked.

"It's stated in the Koran in two or three places that believing women should wear the veil, except in the company of close family members," she said.

Hardman said she spent three hours at the jail while her lawyer tried to convince officials to let her take the picture with her scarf. She eventually was allowed to leave the jail without taking a picture at all. She said she was told she would be found in contempt of court for being out of compliance with her sentence.

They don’t have to strap on bombs any more. All they have to do is attack us at our weakest spot - the ultra-liberal courts. They will have whatever they want, and will just waltz in and impose their savage laws on normal people.

I read the entire article and laughed when I read she was locked up for a D.U.I. (she states she was given alcohol unknowingly). Yeah, right. So, she liked to drink alcohol, drive a scooter drunk but doesn’t want to play by the rules that everyone else has to. Tough! If she was following Islam, she wouldn’t have been at a party without a brother/male cousin (if at all) and wouldn’t have been allowed to drive. Pick something... either you want the freedom the rest of us enjoy (even being stupid) or you want to cling to the Koran. (IMHO) Just a thought.

If we were “her people”, we’d just bury her in the ground up to her shoulders and stone her to death for public intoxication and being in public without a male relative present. So, if she wants Islamic law, then let’s give it to her.

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posted on 12/04/2010 7:53:15 AM PST
by Bryanw92
(Obama is like a rocket scientist....who's trying to do brain surgery with a hammer.)

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